RSC 2017

Specifically, no, but maybe the previously mooted Romeo & Juliet/Troilus & Cressida double-bill will finally come to fruition.

Ditto, though based on the Tewkesbury scenes during Dorans Henry IV the fighting could still be good

At least fight director Terry King is still working with the RSC after all these years.

Would have thought doran will wait to do H6&R3, after all way thinfs are goung its looking like 2019 before the complete works is done! I an hoping for the Romeo&Juliet/Troilus&Cressida double header. Odd there have been no leaks🙉

Antony Sher would play Ricky, surely? He seems to be in everything else going on up there at the moment..

Isn't it obvious David Tennant will do it ?

I should be reluctant by that, but then I remember that last time the RSC went through all the histories series one of my favourite actors played both Richard 2 and 3

Not me, i love it! Just wish they would take more risks with casting and, in the Swan with the repetoire.

To be fair, Sir Ant seems to only do one play a year. And imho has been great in them (seeing KL later this year at the Barbican). So why wouldn't Mr Doran cast him?

I'm hoping for a Pericles as I've never seen the RSC do it (only the Globe).

True, and there have been particular actors who played more major roles in multiple seasons than Antony Sher under Michael Boyd's 'ensemble-style' programming

Snap! Elanor. I first went to Stratford in 1985 for the Ben Kingsley/David Suchet Othello, missed s few years and have been going regularly since. The new season starts next week with 2 Noble Kinsmen and Lear previewing so surely the 2017 season has to be announced any day now?! Maybe with the long promised Troilus/Romeo double bill😀

My first was the Jeremy Irons Winter's Tale - I think it was my first Shakespeare. I remember Jeremy Irons being mumbly and Penny Downie having amazing hair, and there being a wonderful huge polar bear rug which later became exit-pursued-by bear. I saw the Mark Rylance Romeo in the Swan too, which I remember vividly.

I've got tickets for Lear and Tempest, and am still making my mind up about the Swan stuff. I do love the Swan, and I really loved Don Quixote and Queen Anne this year, although I did also really enjoy Faustus and the Alchemist. I'm lucky enough that I can drive to Stratford in about 45 minutes, so it's a very manageable day out for me, and much cheaper than getting to London for the theatre.

Have you gone to any of the Unwrapped events in the mornings? I've seen a couple and really enjoyed them.

JULIUS CAESAR
TITUS ANDRONICUS
ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA

Angus Jackson to direct one.

Any thoughts for the roles of Caesar, Cleopatra, Antony, Brutus, Cassius?